I'm a few days late posting.. as usual.  This time I have good reason, the boys have been sick.  :(

It typically starts when we visit people.  There will undoubtedly be someone that has a cold, flu or something and anytime there is, you can bet Liam will catch it.  It tends to start with Liam and then moves on to Coen and myself.  (Once, Coen and I escaped an illness that Liam caught, but only once.)  This time it's a nasty nasty cold.  I've never seen them look and act so sick before, so I took them to the dr.. 'well, it looks like they have a cold'... really?  This sick and just a cold?  The dr said they look great otherwise, ears very clean, and lungs sounded good, so there's not much we can do for them.  UGH!  In any case, it looks like Liam is on the mend.  He still has a horrible cough, but his nose has dried up some and no more fever.  He's also back to his typical 1 nap.  (For a few days they were taking 2 naps ranging from 1 hr to 3+ hrs.  For me, it was a nice break from crying fussing babies.  It's so hard for a mother not to be able to do something for your child when they're hurt or sick.)  Coen on the other hand seems to be a bit worse off.  He basically didn't sleep for 2 days when he first got sick so that just compounded and made him feel really horrible.  He is sleeping better now and acting better, but still has a fever that keeps popping up.  Anyway, that is a very long explanation  as to why I'm late posting.

I was expecting by 18 months Coen and Liam would be talking up a storm.  I was wrong, very wrong.  Liam still says basically nothing.  To ask for something he points and says eh?  Coen still has his few words, but nothing new since 'bubble'.  The dr said that at 18 months they like to see children saying about 4 words.  She didn't seem concerned that Liam wasn't saying any.  She did say to start keeping a tally of how many words they start saying because by 2, they should have about 50 words in their vocabulary... really?  50!  We have a lot of catching up to do.

Real quick our 18 month stats:  Coen is 32-1/4 in. long (49th%), weighs 23 lbs 13 ozs (22nd%), and head circumference is 49cm (82nd%).  Liam is 33 in. long (71st%), weighs 22 lbs 7 ozs (9th%), and head circumference is 50cm (95th%).  Yup, still has his daddy's big head. :)  Since Liam is on the slender side, the dr suggested giving him some instant breakfast in his milk once a day to boost his calorie intake.  She said if he did get really sick and didn't eat much that he doesn't have much reserve.  So, we tried it, but that was the first day he was sick and didn't want to eat/drink anything.. so we'll try again now that he's feeling better.  I had been giving him some of the pediasure shakes that have lots of extra vitamins and minerals.  He likes them, but they're very expensive, so I'm hoping he will take to the instant breakfast shakes. 

There's not much new from the last month, except for 1 thing.  THEY LOVE MUSIC!  They've always enjoyed me singing to them.  (And if you've ever heard me sing, I'm surprised they like any kind of music after hearing me butcher songs.) 
Here recently I set up a small TV in our living room with a DVD player so the boys can watch Veggie Tales occasionally.  (I'm not big on a TV being the babysitter, but a 30 minute video I'm ok with.)  They won't sit through the entire video but when the intro theme song and silly songs with Larry come on, watch out!  They will literally run to their couch and sit down at stare intently while the songs are going.  I find it incredibly cute and I absolutely love the fact that they like music so much.  (Their favorite story so far is 'The Ballad of Little Joe' aka Joseph and the coat of many colors.)

Tooth count, since teething as picked back up.  Coen's top canines are about to cut through, but haven't quite yet.  So his total is still at 12.  Liam has cut all his canines so that brings him up to 16!  Dr confirmed that once he gets his 2nd set of molars (between age 2-3) he'll be done!  (Until he's much older.)  Just 4 more teeth!


I'll part with this little ditty:
If you like to talk to tomatoes, if a squash can make you smile.  If you like to waltz with potatoes, up and down the produce aisle... have we got a show for you!  .....

(Brings back memories!)